Factors Related to Immigrant Assimilation: Pre-migration Traits

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Using as subjects Italian immigrants in Australia an attempt is made to test the hypothesis: Pre-migration traits are associated with later assimilation because they affect the subject's early post-migration opportunities, motivation and reward for learning the new culture. The data indicate that a number of the pre-migration traits are related to assimilation, but the factors mentioned do not seem to be the intervening variables. An alternate hypothesis is offered to the effect that differences in “culture-learning ability” account for the associations between pre-migration traits and assimilation.

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